New Beginnings

Now that Max and I have moved into our first house, I am excited to begin a real garden. I have a decent sized area that gets tons of sun in my backyard behind the garage. Yesterday I got 3 tomato plants and I was really anxious to get them in the ground.

Yeah, that was a lot of work! I bought a spade/shovel thing and hacked my lawn away to yield a 3x4 foot square. Sod is not easy to tear up! (Also, I just wanted to say that I picked out the earthworms and put them back in the ground). I have no idea if that's large enough for the 3 tomatoes. I guess we'll see. I raked the plot and patted it down. Then I roughly divided the area into sixths. I thought I would put the tomatoes in a checkerboard pattern. Then I transplanted the 3 baby plants into the ground and watered them. That was the fun part.

I was sweating profusely and very very dirty... hehe :D I had used a ton of bug spray on myself because the mosquitoes are insane back there. Then I showered. Sigh.

Max's brother has a tiller. I may be expanding this garden to a 4x8 foot garden this weekend. Who knows!

Any suggestions of what to do with this leftover sod? Can I somehow compost it?